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Subject: Re: When is an upgrade not an upgrade?
From: Steve Borho <steve@borho.myip.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:36:52 -0600


On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:59:43PM -0600, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> I upgraded my Acer Extensa 502T from redhat 5.1 to redhat 6.0, and 
> now the kernel won't boot.  I can boot with a 2.0.34 kernel but not
> with the 2.2.5-22 kernel which comes with 6.0.  It gets to the APM
> and then stops dead.  I seem to remember seeing something about APM
> problems with some laptops before, but I don't know if there was a
> solution/patch.  Haven't been able to find anything on upgrading the
> BIOS yet, although I'm still looking.  I don't really want to go back
> to 5.1 unless there is no other solution.  Does anyone have any info?

The most direct fix would be to boot with the old kernel, install the 6.0
kernel source rpm, configure it to not do APM, then compile and install
it.

In the short term, according to arch/i386/kernel/apm.c, this should work
from the LILO prompt:

linux apm=off

If that worked, you could make that permanent by adding:

append = "apm=off"

to /etc/lilo.conf, then run /sbin/lilo.

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